Comments on: Another Reason Not To Read “The Trades” http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/04/08/another-reason-not-to-read-the-trades/ The blog of the mystery writer, screenwriter and CEO of Pajamas Media Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:16:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Knucklehead http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/04/08/another-reason-not-to-read-the-trades/#comment-44657 Knucklehead Sat, 09 Apr 2005 14:54:55 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/04/08/another-reason-not-to-read-the-trades/#comment-44657 I'm not in the entertainment business but the idiocy in many trade rags is similar. I don't bother renewing even free subscriptions anymore. Once upon a time they were the only source for industry information, news, and analysis. It took me forever to realize that I could not count on any better reporting or analysis of those portions of the subject industry than I saw in the portions about which I actually knew stuff. It finally sunk through my thick skull that if they couldn't get it right, or something better than uselessly shallow, in those areas I had some level of expertise, then there was no good reason to believe reading the stuff I didn't know anything about, but wanted to learn, since it was surely equally shallow and/or incorrect. Thank goodness for blogs! You gonna crank up and trade blograg, Roger? I’m not in the entertainment business but the idiocy in many trade rags is similar. I don’t bother renewing even free subscriptions anymore. Once upon a time they were the only source for industry information, news, and analysis. It took me forever to realize that I could not count on any better reporting or analysis of those portions of the subject industry than I saw in the portions about which I actually knew stuff. It finally sunk through my thick skull that if they couldn’t get it right, or something better than uselessly shallow, in those areas I had some level of expertise, then there was no good reason to believe reading the stuff I didn’t know anything about, but wanted to learn, since it was surely equally shallow and/or incorrect.

Thank goodness for blogs! You gonna crank up and trade blograg, Roger?

]]> By: Oyster http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/04/08/another-reason-not-to-read-the-trades/#comment-44656 Oyster Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:38:04 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2005/04/08/another-reason-not-to-read-the-trades/#comment-44656 That's pretty funny. How do you put up with it, Roger? That’s pretty funny. How do you put up with it, Roger?

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